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TIL that all time travel movies are banned in China.

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5VQAp TIL in 1763 John Adams wrote seven essays under the pen name Humphrey Ploughjogger
DQedr TIL: It is illegal for a private company to deliver a letter without using a USPS stamp and it being ink cancelled, even if the USPS does not handle the letter.
yQLda TIL the kid starring in Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid" went on to become Uncle Fester in the Addams Family TV series (bonus he married Betty Grable too)
XdO8 TIL The ‘Irish Giant’ Charles Byrne was so afraid that the surgeon John Hunter wanted his body dissection and display, he arranged to be buried at sea. Hunter snatched Byrne’s cadaver on the way to the burial, reduced Byrne’s body to its skeleton and put it in his museum where it still remains
J1Q84 TIL Oprah became co-anchor of the evening news in Nashville at only 19 years old; success happened for her 'just like that'